I have a creative suggestion that might bring some fun and activity on server.
When i played this game round 3-4 years ago, the server admin always made a contest like "Nemesis of the month".
This contest used to work like that:
Admins can announce once a month there on forum and notify all them players on server (for ex. 3 days earlier of the contest) that there is going to be a competition.
So everyone who will be part of the server at that moment can have the opportunity to be a nemesis by administrative team and get him results.
Then someone of the admins (or even if its possible from FTP to count these guys frags) can write down all those guys frags and the winner can receive a prize. The only prize that server can offer its monthly VIP.
I can remember when that server had contests like this, even players that we're not part of that server all over the time tried so hard to achieve that 1st position.
There must be no AFK player, its almost 100% sure that making that competition around 8-9PM and by giving a couple of notifications to the usual players for several days, server is gonna be 32/32 with full activity even without AFK.
Contest must be made in maps like zm_ice_attack3 that doesn't have too many spots to hide, because that can crash everyones game by hiding and setting lasermines. Also one of the admins must drop 30 JP at the 1st round start.
Its kinda beautiful and i guess that VIP prize doesnt cost that much to the admins for the winner.
Take a look please, i want all of you guys to get involved on that and reply. Lets bring more joy back to this game!!!!
Kind regards!